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Microsoft to push IE 8 to more business users in August

Microsoft to push IE 8 to more business users in AugustFINALLY!Please...Please... Please TO ALL corporations and individuals: upgrade away from IE 6.. PLEASE! You don't have to go to IE 8...firefox, chrome, Opera..will do. But for the love of Pete... IE 6 needs to go. TO MS: THANKS for...

Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Internet Explorer, IE 8, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, Microsoft Corp., IE8

Discussion threads 2009-06-30

Dean at critical point in health reform debate

The former Vermont Governor, Presidential candidate and Democratic National Committee chair has gone back to his roots, using his status as a doctor, and his original campaign organization, to push for a "public option" in health reform. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Howard Dean, Health Care, Insurance Industry, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Government, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-03-27

Insurance industry renews offer to end underwriting

Insurance industry renews offer to end underwritingHow about one payer... but with a twist, the goverment pays them to handlethe details. They handle the end user support and pay the doctors when bills arrive. They enforce the rules as to who gets what.Maybe they could offer a product...

Tags: Insurance Industry, insurance

Discussion threads 2009-03-25

Insurance industry renews offer to end underwriting

The main sticking point is this. Insurers will not accept government competition. They fear the government would take the best risks and leave them holding the rest. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Dana Blankenhorn, Enterprise Software, Government, Insurance, Insurance Industry, Management, Mandate, Software, Strategy, Vertical Industries

Blog posts 2009-03-25

House IT stimulus bill lacks answer to key question

What could open source do with $6 billion this year in building an open, coherent, and scalable set of health care IT tools? Now what would you get if you just passed that money on to existing vendors? by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Information Technology, Health Care, Nationalism, Insurance Industry, VA, Open Source, Vertical Industries, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-01-23

Standards for Success: IBM Commitment to SOA and Standards for the Insurance Industry

Standards-based collaboration is helping insurance companies achieve their business goals by making it easier for people, systems, and processes to work together and for businesses to communicate and interoperate within an ecosystem. The insurance industry is evolving away from monolithic, silo-based organizations towards networked models where enterprises combine to deliver...

Tags: SOA, Standards, IBM Corp., Insurance Industry, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Insurance, Quality, Financial Planning, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance

White papers 2005-08-01

UDDI finally springs into action

The insurance industry may be a conservative lot, but I've noticed they have been ahead of the curve with Web services. The industry's big challenge is that carriers rely on networks of independent or semi-independent agents up front, but run a lot of mainframes in the back. The insurance industry...

Tags: Web, Hartford Financial Services Group, Hartford, Web service, insurance industry

Blog posts 2004-12-06

Additional Resources

Judge's idea to outlaw links won't save newspapers

I continue to be blown away by what I read about how newspapers can be saved. The latest comes from U.S. Appeals Court Judge Richard Posner who, in a blog post last week, suggested that one way to save newspapers from their demise would be "to bar linking to...

Tags: Newspaper, Consent, Blogging, Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Personal Finance, Internet, Human Resources, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-07-02

Enterprise 2.0: The Kumbaya irony

Enterprise 2.0: The Kumbaya ironyCase studies and market maturityHi Michael,for the second year I was among the many participants to the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston. As you and Susan stated clearly this market is in its infancy and customers still have a strong appetite for success stories, lessons learned...

Tags: Enterprise 2.0, Kumbaya irony, Kumbaya

Discussion threads 2009-06-29

AT&T revises iPhone upgrade eligibility policy

AT&T revises iPhone upgrade eligibility policyLost iPhoneJust a thought. Why dont you just say you lost your phone and then get a new one???????RE: AT&T revises iPhone upgrade eligibility policyWow, still $399 and $499 for early upgrades. If Apple continues to release a new phone almost every year...

Tags: 3G, Cellular phones, Wireless and Mobility, AT&T Corp., Apple iPhone, eligibility policy, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-06-18

TechNet Webcast: Best Practices for Security With SQL Server 2008 and SafeNet Luna HSM Support (Level 300)

Emerging industry compliance standards, such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act HIPAA and Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard PCI DSS, require that data be secure at rest. Requirement three of the PCI DSS requires the encryption of any stored card holder data. The attendee of this webcast...

Tags: Webcast, Microsoft SQL Server, Best Practice, SafeNet Inc., Microsoft TechNet, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Hipaa, Regulatory Compliance, Security, Regulations, Healthcare, Government, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures

Webcasts 2009-06-18

Genachowski sails through FCC confirmation hearings

Genachowski sails through FCC confirmation hearingsFree Speach = Republican Dominance???You say that removing the imposition of ideological quotas repealing the Fairness Doctrine was, "a key foundation of the Republican dominance over the past 25 years." So free speech is what caused the supposed Republican dominance???? If you believe...

Tags: Federal government, Insurance, DTV Transition, Genachowski, confirmation hearing, FCC

Discussion threads 2009-06-17

Looking for a few good SOA case studies

Are you part of a successful SOA deployment, and would like to share some details with the rest of the world? The world wants to hear from you. The SOA Consortium, in conjunction with CIO Magazine, is once again holding it's annual SOA case study competition, and...

Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-06-17

Microsoft, Mississippi settle over software pricing

Microsoft, Mississippi settle over software pricingWhat a huge waste of moneyI cannot believe that the state of Mississippi spent the $ necessary to get some of it's residents a few dollars refund. We'll never know but I bet after factoring in the cost per taxpayer for the lawyers fees...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Pricing, Investment, Personal finance, Microsoft Corp., software pricing, software, pricing strategy

Discussion threads 2009-06-12

Obama military deference threatens health reform

Obama military deference threatens health reformWhen you see the examplesthe VA, Medicare, MedicaidDoes anybody believe the government can manage universal health care?Oh please.... we implemented an EHR system that uses both.. in 6 months.They use MySQL backend, web standards for communication and some closed source for a front end.They are...

Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, health care, Medicare, government

Discussion threads 2009-06-11

GOP to go with McCain plan

GOP to go with McCain planMcCain was defeated, not his health care planWhile it's become commonplace for pundits to treat electoral defeat as the equivalent of personal repudiation and the rejection of everything the candidate stands for, that is not and never has been the case. If it were,...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, health care, GOP

Discussion threads 2009-05-21

Public EMR fears overblown

Public EMR fears overblownPatients worry about insurance abuseand well they should.Until people can elect to have a reasonably priced public coverage there will be abuses by the insurance industry. We're not enjoying the standards that the country enjoyed in the 50's - technology has been used to exclude all...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, Government, health care, health insurance, public option

Discussion threads 2009-05-19

HIPAA remains the EMR deterrent

HIPAA remains the EMR deterrentFirst off.. its no longer called EMR.. its called EHR.. and oh the holesHIPAA is not the reason EHR is not being adopted quicker. Its money. Many of the software EHRs already have built in encryption for communication(no external devices needed!) and secondly HIPAA,...

Tags: Regulatory compliance, Regulations, Insurance, HIPAA, goverment, eHR, EMR

Discussion threads 2009-05-18

The Sullivan Group a Marathon Technologies Customer

I've spoken with the good folks of Marathon Technologies on several ocassions see Marathon Technologies launches everRun VM and Marathon Technologies and Microsoft dance together. This time, I had the opportunity to speak with  Erika Simpson, Network Administrator, and Rob Jones, IT Director, a user of Marathon's everRun VM, from...

Tags: Software, Marathon Technologies, Sullivan Group, SamWare, Server Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Virtualization, Servers, Hardware, Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-05-13

ObamaCare opponents scramble to build a winning coalition

ObamaCare opponents scramble to build a winning coalitionObamaCare sneaks a foot in the doorExisting insurance companies and health care providers worry about the government plan because it is the pre-ordained winner on the path to single payer, not because a government plan would be inherently superior.Any Democrat worth their credentials...

Tags: Vertical industries, Healthcare reform, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, game plan, health care, single payer, ObamaCare, ObamaCare opponent

Discussion threads 2009-05-12